Seeing beyond the lumber in my own eyes.  My view is skewed, fractured and diffracted by my own shortcomings.  How can I look upon myself in the way in which the Lord sees me?  Knowing I am sealed by the Holy Spirit of God Himself, saved by the Christ of God.  How would I be changed if I could see His righteousness lain upon me, covering my sin with a purity?  How then would I gaze upon you with eyes set for Glory, knowing your sanctification assured?  Lord, that I have the eyes to see beyond the dirt, mire and grime camouflaging the external vessel to see the flourishing soul within.  How then would my attitude be changed and my kindness altered to see Christ in those around me?  Do I have ears to hear the Word that the Lord has preached or will I remain focused on the siren call of discouragement, bidding me abide in this world and not in Christ?  How then may I begin to resemble Almighty God if I do not first look upon others in a gentler light?

Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the Father.  Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world.  But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His son, born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.  And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”  Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.  Galatians 4:1-7

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law.  And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  Galatians 5:22-25

The Spirit of the Son is in each of us, crying out to a Father from whom we had been estranged, lost, destitute, without hope or joy.  Hallelujah, it is Christ that saves each of us redeemed to God in kinship with the Lord.  We may now equally look upon those in Christ as Family, rejoicing in their individual walk toward eternity.  May we unite in our shared devotion to God, writing His commands upon our heart in tune with the Spirit living within each of us.  What then might we accomplish if we look upon each other in a new way, free from condemnation, reflection, refracted vision and criticism.  Renewed by the encouragement of our own hearts made new.  How then would I personally view defeat in its impossibility being so perfectly aligned with God, equally with Family in love, victory, hope and fulfillment?  How then would the definition of the impossible be forever transformed?